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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Sarsours-sans-Clits: Trojan Horses Of Women Movement

It must be so convenient, while
marching in the safe confines of Washington DC, to advocate that other women --
far away -- be genitally mutilated, married off in childhood, and beaten and
violated in their own homes.

These women in hijabs marching on Washington do not have to live in this
"Utopia." They are comfortably living in the "infidel
West," protected from such barbarity. The Western culture that allows
women to shout into microphones is not even necessarily the culture these women
believe in; it is often just a tool they use to promote totalitarian ideas such
as anti-Semitism, religious intolerance and imposition of theocratic beliefs.

Most prominent of those so-call
Feminist Muslim Women, Lind Sarsour, tweeted on 12 May 2015, “You’ll know when
you’re living under Sharia Law if suddenly all your loans & credit cards
become interest free. Sound nice, doesn’t it?”

Linda Sarsour (born 1980) is a
Palestinian-American political activist, self-described as progressive, and
former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. Sarsour
is the oldest of seven children born to a pair of Palestinian immigrants and she
was raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and went to John Jay High School in Park
Slope, Brooklyn.

Sarsour was married in an arranged
marriage to a Palestinian man at the age of 17 after she supposedly had a devastating
FGM in accordance with the groom’s devout-Islamist family requirement. She had
three children by her mid-20s.

Sarsour, a national co-chair of the
Women’s March on Washington – whose stated mission is “to send a bold
message…that women’s rights are human rights” – is also an outspoken advocate
of Islamic Sharia Law that restricts the rights of women, claiming Sharia Law is
“reasonable” and has simply been “misunderstood.”

Does a woman like Linda Sarsour really
think that people have gone so mad that they will give up the civil liberties
that their ancestors earned through the centuries, merely for interest-free
loans?

The hypocrisy is that Sarsour's bold
lifestyle in the US portrays that deep down she herself loathes the suppressing
conditions that she promotes for the poor women of the Muslim world, who
actually have to live with them. Coming from a conservative Muslim society, I
know the culture she yearns for would never allow her to launch such activism
without permission from her "guardian" men.

The dissenting voices of the oppressed are fighting on two fronts. They
are being crushed by their own totalitarian regimes and at the same time by
Western apologists for these tyrants.

Why do women who believe in equal rights for women, pick as their
spokesperson someone who one minute boasts of her supposed dissent as
"patriotism," while the next minute advocating chopping off other
womens' genitals? It is like choosing a hangman to campaign against the death
penalty, or the head of ISIS to campaign for same sex marriages.

The principles of "dissent,"
of which they claim to be so proud, and to have borrowed from religious
sources, are actually the modern world's liberal values and human rights --
just those rights values they seem to be trying to destroy.

From the other side of their mouths,
however, they are trying to impose Islamic sharia law on the West.
Unfortunately, sharia is openly antagonistic to Western values and human
rights. How can cults that believe in dominating others call themselves progressive,
when their entire message runs counter to the spirit of tolerance and social
coexistence?

The champions of sharia have always
said they wish to establish a "righteous" form of government, made by
divine law, and presumably to that end, they implant their set of rules -- such
as allowing no debate or criticism on their beliefs, or such as segregating
sexes -- to destroy modern democracies.

It must be so convenient, while
marching on Washington DC, to advocate that other women -- far away -- be genitally
mutilated, married off in childhood, and domestically beaten and violated --
and all the while, in the safe confines of Washington, to stay silent on issues
of truly massive abuse: floggings; acid burnings; chopping off limbs or heads,
or burning, drowning or burying people alive.

These women in hijabs marching on
Washington DC do not have to live in this "Utopia." They are
comfortably living in the "infidel West', protected from such barbarity. The
values they are enjoying here are the values of the enlightened world and have
nothing to do with the culture they are trying to impose on others.

The culture that is allowing women such
as Linda Sarsour to shout into microphones is not even necessarily the culture
these women believe in; it is often just the culture they are using to promote
totalitarian ideas such as anti-Semitism, religious intolerance and the
imposition of theocratic beliefs through infiltration or force.

The culture to which Sarsour says she aspires, allows mutilating women
but does not allow women to speak in a loud tone, let alone speaking through
microphones. Hence, she owes her current privileges to her American identity.

Muslim activist Linda Sarsour one minute boasts of her supposed dissent
as "patriotism," while the next minute advocates chopping off other
womens' genitals. Sarsour stated in a tweet on May 13, 2015: "You'll know
when you're living under Sharia Law if suddenly all your loans & credit
cards become interest free. Sound nice, doesn't it?"

Then she wrote on an April 29, 2014
tweet: "@RobertWildiris I don't drink alcohol, don't eat pork, I follow
Islamic way of living. That's all Sharia law is." It would be nice if the
only requirements of sharia were avoiding alcohol or pork were; there happens,
however, to be an ocean of dos and don'ts that fall into the category of
"I follow Islamic way of living."

The ocean Sarsour never bothered to
mention, but that the world witnesses every day, exists from the Saudi palaces
to the caves of Afghanistan and Raqqa. The culture that Sarsour desires to
impose on the world -- along with promises to waive interest on loans -- does
not allow women to interact with unrelated men, drive cars, ride bicycles, attend
sports events, leave the house without permission, or wear makeup and clothes
that reveal their body parts, let alone address a crowd.

Women would also need four male
witnesses to prove a rape, or risk being stoned to death for
"adultery." Does Sarsour really think that people have gone so mad
that they will give up all of their civil liberties and freedom that their
ancestors earned through the centuries, merely for interest free loans?

The hypocrisy is that her bold
lifestyle in the US portrays that deep down, she herself loathes the
suppressing conditions that she likes promoting for the poor women of the
Muslim world who actually have to live with them. How would these women in
hijabs like to spend a few weeks under the totalitarian regimes about which
they love to brag?

Three British girls who followed the
call of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi slipped into Syria to join the jihad,
only to be desperate over the mistake they had made; one is believed dead.

Kadiza Sultana, Shamima Begum and Amira
Abase, intoxicated by ISIS propaganda, entered Syria to join the holy mission
and be ISIS brides. Sultana reportedly was killed in a Russian airstrike while
too scared to try an escape from ISIS, fearing extreme torture and public
execution if caught. The whereabouts of the other two are still unknown, apart
from rare contact reported between them and their families.

Sophie Kasiki, a French girl who also
managed to break away from the ISIS stronghold in Raqqa with her four-year-old
son, said she risked death if caught to try to save her son. She defined the
ordeal of being with ISIS as "a journey into a hell from which there
seemed no return."

Samra Kesinovic, a 17 year old Austrian
girl, was reportedly beaten to death by ISIS fighters when she was caught
trying to flee, after being "gifted" by her partner to another ISIS
fighter as a sex slave.

The irony is that Linda Sarsour and her
followers say they love Hamas and caliphates like the one established by Abu
Bakar al-Baghdadi, or Saudi and Iranian regimes -- but of course they do not
live in them. Sarsour has doubtless been put forward by men to promote their
soft image as they themselves cannot boast about the rights they are giving to
their women.

Coming from a conservative Muslim
society, I know the culture she yearns for would never allow her to launch such
activism without permission from her "guardian" men. How come she
forgot to mention that in Saudi Arabia and many other Muslim states, her kind
of activism would cost a woman her family, her honour and probably her life.

A court in the state of Washington suspended the ban on travelers from
seven mainly Muslim countries imposed by the President Trump last week. Would
any judge or influential person dare refute the order of, say, the Saudi King,
a sharia council of Iran, a member of a royal family from a Middle Eastern
country, a military dictator or the Hamas leaders Sarsour apparently so
admires?

Lucky for Sarsour that she was arrested in NYC for Woman-March. If it was in Iranshe will be executed. She would be gang-raped before hanging tn prevent herfrom going to heaven in accordance with Khomeni's Fatwa.

You cannot even imagine in your worst
nightmares dissenting in those sharia-compliant territories, but yes, dissent
is allowed in the US and the West, where people are freely allowed to speak
their thoughts. These are not the values of the alien land she professes to
admire; these were fought for and earned by the people of the West with their
blood.

The progressives' one-sided love affair
with extremists will never serve the purpose of promoting equality. In fact, it
could be counterproductive. In Egypt, the conservative men used women as
protestors to overthrow Husni Mubarak's regime, but once the Muslim
Brotherhood, which spearheaded the Morsi regime, took control, the whole world
watched in shock as they imposed sharia on everyone -- most of all on those
women. The Morsi regime later punished women who protested the Iranian-style
sharia that it was imposing.

The same imams who were the moving
spirits behind Egypt's revolution were then delivering fatwas [religious
opinions] to rape the same women who had been marching in the streets for their
rights. According to al Arabiyya:

"An Egyptian Salafi preacher, said
raping and sexually harassing women protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square is
justified, calling them "crusaders" who "have no shame, no fear
and not even feminism.... Abu Islam added that these women activists are going
to Tahrir Square not to protest but to be sexually abused because they had
wanted to be raped...And by the way, 90 percent of them are crusaders and the
remaining 10 percent are widows who have no one to control them.. "

Around 80 women were molested in one
night alone, when the Morsi government was ousted and people came out to
celebrate his departure. Those are the views Sarsour is trying to sell.

The same men these liberals and
progressives are trying to empower, once enthroned, would declare them apostates
and inflict the worst imaginable punishments on them for the "crimes"
they are committing by promoting the set of values they think bring harmony in
the world.

The dissenting voices of the oppressed are fighting on two fronts. They
are being crushed by their own totalitarian regimes and at the same time by
apologists for these tyrants whom the marchers are empowering -- probably
without even realizing what massive harm they are doing.

Musician and alternative icon Courtney
Love has also blasted anti-Donald Trump Women’s March leader and Muslim
activist Linda Sarsour, calling her a “vile disgrace to women and all mankind”
in a message on social media Wednesday (June 6).

“You’re a vile disgrace to women and
all mankind [Linda Sarsour],” posted Love, the former partner of the late
Nirvana musician Kurt Cobain.

The controversy over Sarsour's pro-Sharia tweets, however,
reached new heights when it was discovered that she viciously attacked Ayaan
Hirshi Ali, a childhood victim of Female Genital Mutiliation. Ali is hated by
Islamists because of her break with Islam over her mutilation.

Sarsour tweeted that Ali, and also
Brigitte Gabriel, shouldn’t even have vaginas — a particularly inappropriate
comment given the genital mutilation of Ali. Even if Sarsour were not the
Co-Chair of the Women’s March it would be a cruel tweet, but coming from
someone who has become a feminist hero to liberals, it was particularly bad.

Linda Sarsour is also widely known as Sarsour-sans-Clit for she herself was a victiom of type-3 FGM the total removal of her clitoris. Sarsour deleted the cruel tweet once it was
discovered by Nurit Baytch, but a screenshot already had been archived: